George Halas

“Many people flounder about in life because they have no purpose. Before it is possible to achieve anything, an objective must be set”. –George Halas

Louis Nizer

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

Isaac Parker

“‘Do equal and exact justice’ is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, ‘Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape'”. –Isaac Parker

John Quincy Adams

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it”. –John Quincy Adams

William Howard Taft

“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies”. –William Howard Taft

Ferdinand Lassalle

“The constitutional questions, are in the first instance, not questions of right, but questions of might”. –Ferdinand Lassalle

Ernest Bramah

“A reputation for a thousand years may depend upon the conduct of a single moment”. –Ernest Bramah

Immanuel Kant

“Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee”. –Immanuel Kant

Mahatma Gandhi

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

James Monroe

“The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers”. –James Monroe

John Diefenbaker

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

Woodrow Wilson

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

Alfred Austin

“Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right”. –Alfred Austin

Samuel Untermyer

“The Jews are the aristocrats of the world”. –Samuel Untermyer

Learned Hand

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

Eça de Queiroz

“Human effort may manage at its best to transform a starving proletariat into a well-fed bourgeoisie; but then a worse proletariat emerges from the bowels of society. Jesus was right, there will always be the poor among us. Which proves that this humanity is the greatest error that God ever committed”. –Eça de Queiroz

John Marshall

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will”. –John Marshall

Robert G. Ingersoll

“The burning enthusiasm, the quenchless zeal of the early church have gone, never, never to return. The ceremonies remain, but the ancient faith is fading out of the human heart. The worn-out arguments fail to convince, and denunciations that once blanched the faces of a race, excite us only in derision and disgust. As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us”. –Robert G. Ingersoll

Quintilian

“Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish”. –Quintilian

Cornelius Vanderbilt

“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won’t sue you, for law is too slow. I’ll ruin you”. –Cornelius Vanderbilt

Francis Galton

“One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigor of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands”. –Francis Galton

Ammon Hennacy

“Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don’t need them and the bad people don’t follow them, so what good are they?” –Ammon Hennacy

Rudyard Kipling

“Now this is the Law of the Jungle – as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die”. –Rudyard Kipling